On my first trip out of the country, our KLM plane code-shared with PAL safely crossed the path of a typhoon over Casiguran. Thank God, "may kasiguraduhan!"
Last night, there was another natural calamity aggravated by human nature in Quezon Province. In the midst of the rain brought by Henry, word spread by text of a coming tsunami. Could have come from the pen of O Henry's surprise endings!
First, there was no earthquake that precedes tsunamis. Second, the towns concerned were inland. But people used to calamity could go on automatic mode, tend to panic or be anxious and not think or question much.
In mediation, each dispute is unique as far as disputants and details are involved. A conflict is not like any other, even if of the same kind. A mediator treats each one as on a blank slate.
S/he also has an inquisitive and insightful mind that is not caught up by loud assertions and outbursts of emotions, "signifying nothing."
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